The 2nd International Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) Teaching Course took place in London in November 2013. The event presented some of the latest thinking relating to following TTM cardiac arrest and neurological trauma.
SUZANNE CALLANDER reports on the main messages that came from the event
International guidelines currently advise the use of therapeutic hypothermia for unconscious survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). However the target temperature associated with the best outcome is unknown.
While presenting the results of the recently published study Targeted Temperature Management,1 Professor Hans Friberg, from Lund University, Sweden, explained that the main objective of the trial was to assess the benefits and harms of targeted temperature management at 33°C versus 36°C and to avoid fever in post cardiac arrest patients in both groups.
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